Recently I had a couple of my Z-Wave devices fail. I had to force remove them, which resulted in some ghost nodes appearing. I removed these without difficulty using Simplicity Studio.
With the failed devices and subsequent ghost nodes, I began having intermittent problems with one of my Schlage locks. Until this time, it worked flawlessly. I removed the two installed on the house and then added them back into the mesh (the second was to confirm a suspicion I had). I also have one on the garage, and another on the shed.
The lock furthest from my C-8 did not add easily this time around, until I moved it physically closer to the hub. This was not a requirement when I first added it 2 or 3 years ago.
To make sure my mesh was solid, I did run a network rebuild. Everything was successful, except it failed on the node ID assigned to the Schlage lock I added back in. As a test, I removed and added the second lock on the house. After this, when I ran a network rebuild, it failed on both of these locks (unreachable).
After the rambling on... my question is...
Understanding these are battery devices, I can understand why they would not be reachable. Why is this happening now? The second lock on the house, along with the garage and shed locks never failed on a rebuild. After I added the second lock on the house back in, now it fails as unreachable on the rebuild as well. None of my other battery powered devices appear, or fail, during the rebuild. Are these locks now being included in the rebuild where they weren't in a previous version of C-8 firmware?
I should add that I'm using the native Schlage Z-Wave driver, and am running hub v2.4.4.135.
I'm not sure about the lock furthest from the hub because I didn't check the route before force removing the defective devices. The second lock showed it was communicating directly with the hub (at the time). Now that it's been removed and added, it's showing 3-hops to communicate with the hub.
I also performed factory resets on both the locks prior to adding them again.
Regular C8 or Pro? If regular C8 can we assume you are on the ZIP gateway (not Zwave JS)?
You may just need to wait a couple days for the mesh to settle down after removing multiple repeaters. Not sure how long ago you removed them and the ghost nodes?
It's the original C8. I didn't mention before, however I did fully shut down and unplug the hub a couple of times through this.
That said, today everything seems to be settling. The locks are reachable and automations associated with them are working correctly. It seems I just needed to be a little more patient. I assumed that with ghost nodes removed, locks factory reset, hub powered down, the locks would integrate to the mesh and be immediately accessible once joined.
